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“They were looking for a male over 6 feet he said in arecent interview. Wylie, who is tall and fit the bill. The experience, Wylie caused him to fall in lovewith education. Todayh Wylie, 68, is just as ebullientt when he talks about his work as presidentof — a seasids liberal arts college in Beverly, which has doubled its campuws acreage and more than quadruplef its student count under Wylie’s Endicott is set in an idyllif setting near the beach. The campus is grassy. Its buildingw are new or so well-maintained that they appead so. And a fountain spurting a constant stream of water from the middlre of a pond punctuatesthe landscape.
Minus the not much of the pristine orstudent body, was here when Wylie took over as the fiftn president in 1987. He came after serving in various professoriakl and administrative roles atthe , , the and . When he arrivedr Endicott was a two-year college for womeh with about 500undergraduate students. He had only $25,000 to make capitap improvements. His first meeting, Wylie recalled, was about a proposal to sell the which no one had informexd him wasunder consideration. “The boar said, ‘We’ll give you two years,’ he said.
“People thought ther e was a probability we were going to Within a year Endicott becamra four-year college and in 1994 it became Programs that didn’t fit with the college’s missionj and identity were cut. “Wr had summer programs where we had kungfu ... and they were out on the lawn with broom handles hittingeach other. We turned and ‘These things just don’tf belong,’ ” Wylie said. What did belong was the college’ws focus on experiential learning. Internships are a requiredx partof students’ curricula at Endicott. The college even publishes an annual directorh of allits students’ internships.
Endicott alreadyh had a co-op educational model when Wylisetook over, but his goal was to extends that to a larger numbet of students. During the 2007-2008 academic 1,067 new internship sites were established. Robert president of the , said he’ss noticed a major shift in how internss from Endicott approach their work over the pastseveral “The students are a lot more engaged,” he “There’s a greater demand on the student to reallu learn from their internship experience.” (Wylie is on the board of directorsa of the North Shore Chambef of Commerce.) Endicott now has abou 2,000 undergraduate students and 2,000 graduate students.
The school collectede nearly $60 million in revenue last about 95 percent came from tuition andhousing fees. It spentt $51.5 million and had total assets ofabout $78.3 million, accordin g to its 2008 annual report. Part of the growing popularitg of the college stems from its which Wylie said is lowerf than several ofits peers. The cost of tuitio n and housing last year at Endicotftwas $35,910. The costs at , and — all of whic h are considered competitors byEndicott — each ran at or abov e $40,000 last year. Endicott has added eight new buildings, three major additionse and several renovations since Wylie tookthe helm. Wyli said that he pushes a conservativ e modelof expansion.
The buildings are free of frivolouss amenities and thus cheaperto build, he A third of the funds come straightf from the operating budget, another thirx are provided through donationds and the last piec comes from raising debt.